How did poetry survive? : the making of modern American verse /

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How Did Poetry Survive? traces the emergence of modern American poetry at the turn of the nineteenth century. American poetry had stalled: a small group of recently deceased New England poets still held sway, and few outlets existed for living poets. However, the United States' quickly accelera...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Newcomb, John Timberman
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1900-1999
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
Poetry > Authorship > Psychological aspects.
Poets, American > 20th century > Psychology.
Social change in literature.
Social conflict in literature.
City and town life in literature.
Technology in literature.
Poésie américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (Littérature) > États-Unis.
Poésie > Art d'écrire > Aspect psychologique.
Poètes américains > 20e siècle > Psychologie.
Changement social dans la littérature.
Vie urbaine dans la littérature.
Technologie dans la littérature.
POETRY > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American poetry.
Modernism (Literature)
Poets, American > Psychology.
United States.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. A modernism of the city
  • Inventing the new verse
  • American poetry on the brink, 1905-1912
  • Poetry's opening door : Harriet Monroe and American modernism
  • Young, blithe, and whimsical : the avant-gardism of the masses
  • There is always others : experimental verse and "ulterior social result"
  • Volunteers of America, 1917 : the seven arts and the Great War
  • Keys to the city
  • Gutter and skyline : the new verse and the metropolitan cityscape
  • Footprints of the 20th century : American skyscrapers, modern poems
  • Subway fare : toward a poetics of rapid transit.

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